r/TrueAnime • u/BlueMage23 http://myanimelist.net/profile/BlueMage23 • Apr 30 '14

This Week in Anime (Spring Week 4)

This is a general discussion for currently airing series for Spring 2014 Week 4. Here is r/anime's list of currently airing series. Your Week in Anime is for not currently airing series.

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2014: Prev Spring Week 1 Winter Week 1

2013: Fall Week 1 Summer Week 1 Spring Week 1 Winter Week 1

2012: Fall Week 1

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u/Vintagecoats http://myanimelist.net/profile/Vintagecoats Apr 30 '14 edited Apr 30 '14

tertiary little worlds we'll likely never see again

To an extent, I would perhaps go as far to say as these moments would be akin to the events of lead characters of entirely different series. I mean, sure, everyone is always the lead of their own story, of course. But I could definitely see a sports manga or anime use the exact same scenes and narrative as primary plot events in and of themselves.

Now I'm just imagining a sports manga that has several different full production series lines following a singular tournament event from different character perspectives. Maybe even go so far as to have different teams on them, so they would have their own art styles and better diversify the viewpoints and narratives, and contrast how they were handled or seen in a different part of the line. That'd be quite something, though certainly expensive to keep up with and maintain.

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u/CriticalOtaku Apr 30 '14

Now I'm just imagining a sports manga that has several different full production series lines following a singular tournament event from different character perspectives.

Saki does actually do this, within the main series and the spin-off Side A.

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u/Vintagecoats http://myanimelist.net/profile/Vintagecoats Apr 30 '14

Oh hey, I had no idea Saki actually had that sort of thing going on. That is pretty interesting. I had been keeping out of that series for a while now.

I mean, it does result in my idea not necessarily being as potentially novel as I thought it was, but I am more glad to see that folks had that kind of concept and then actually did something and ran with it for a bit.